Tracking and allocation of linear cuts now available

You can now track and allocate linear cuts to lot products, which improves these parts of the linear cuts process:

  • Specifying lengths of a product, such as wire, on a sales order
  • Cutting those lengths from lot products
  • Assigning the cuts to the order
  • Picking and shipping

This enhancement also maximizes the process efficiency for larger distribution centers where linear cuts to lot products may be made for several sales orders simultaneously.

You can specify linear product cuts on a sales order in two ways:

  • Configure linear cut lengths as components for a build-on-demand kit with Infor CPQ Enterprise Configurator in Sales Order Entry
  • Specify linear cut lot products directly on the order line in Sales Order Entry

In either case, you can review and allocate available lots to fulfill the specified cuts in Sales Order Entry-Advanced Line Entry. When automatic lot assignment is enabled, an existing lot that can fulfill the specified cut lengths is automatically allocated to the outgoing lot product. Updated logic for linear cut lot products determines lot allocation by lot quantities rather than Product Warehouse Product Setup balances.

After the order is entered, you can find orders that require cuts and document the actual cuts against the lot in the new Sales Linear Cut Maintenance Entry function. In addition, the cut information from the lot cut records is now displayed in these functions:

  • Sales Entry Pick Tickets Report
  • Sales Shipping Feedback Entry
  • Sales Entry Invoice Processing Report
  • Sales Order Inquiry
  • Purchase Order Inquiry
  • Warehouse Transfer Inquiry
  • Product Extended Lot Number Setup
  • Product Inquiry-General when you click the Lot button

Sales Linear Cut Maintenance Entry

The new Sales Linear Cut Maintenance Entry function is used to create and update lot product linear cut records. These product cutting tasks can be performed when you click Cut in the toolbar:

  • Find cuts that must be made, based on attributes such as order number, product, warehouse, or rush lines.
  • Export and deliver cut information to the personnel responsible for making the cuts
  • Allocate the lot and specify lengths of cuts after they are made
  • Assign cuts to fill a component or line on an order

These lot and cut maintenance tasks can be performed for a specific product and lot number in a specific warehouse when you click Update in the toolbar:

  • Split single cut into two cuts
  • Update length available in a lot
  • Convert to scrap any lengths that cannot be cut or sold

Feature activation

Use Product Setup and Product Warehouse Product Setup to define a product as a linear cut lot product or a build-on-demand kit that can be used to fabricate a requested product. The kit is made up of components, which include linear cut lot products of a specific length. When the product to be cut is received in Purchase Receipt of Inventory Entry or Transfer Receipt of Inventory Entry, you must assign it to lots and specify the initial cut length of the piece you received.

To use the CPQ Enterprise Configurator to configure linear cuts in build-on-demand kits, all associated setups in Infor CPQ Enterprise Configurator and Product Setup-Cores & Configurator must be complete. Create and specify a ruleset to be used by Infor CPQ Enterprise Configurator to process the external assembly build-on-demand kit and return the appropriate components to the order.

See more information in the Infor CloudSuite Distribution Integration Guide for CPQ Enterprise Configurator and CPQ Enterprise Quoting.

To enable automatic assignment of lots for linear cut lot products in Sales Order Entry, select the Allow Auto Assign Lots option in SA Administrator Options-Products-Defaults. This option now applies to incoming and outgoing lot products.

Operator access to the new Sales Linear Cut Maintenance Entry function is determined by standard functional security in SA Operator Setup.